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Lost in sight of Home.

A few months ago, during one of
the severe storms that visited Colo
RADIO, young man perished in sight
of home. In his bewilderment he
passed and repassed his own cottage,
to lie down and die almost in range
with the light in the window
which his young wife had placed
there to guide him home. All alone
she watched the long night through,
listening in vain for the foot steps
that would come no more: for, long
before the morning dawned the icy
touch Of Death had forever stilled
that warm loving heart. The sad
death was made still more sadder By
the fact that he was lost in sight of
home. How many wanderers from
the Fathers house are lost in sight
of home, in the full glare Of the Jos
pei light. They have the oDen
Bible, overAowing with its calls and
promises, the faithful warnings from
the sacred desk, the manifestation:
Of Gods providence, all tending tc
direct their steps heavenward, anC
yet from all these they turn away
waiting for the more convenien-
season, and are lost at last in sight O
the many mansions.-Forward.
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When our divine Master says to us
"Cast your care on me-" he does not
release us from legitimate duty or
the joy of doing it. He aims to take
the needless tire out of Us by taking
sinfnl anxiety out of our hearts, and
putting the tonic of trust in its place.
This glorious doctrine Of trust is a
wonderfully resttul one to the over
loaded. For let US remind ourselves
again that it is not honest work that
usually breaks Gods children down.
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principle of the growth of the king
dom of Christ. Too much thought
OF reaching results by wholesale
methods. rather than diligent per-
sonal effort for individuals, has
marked the history of the church. In
every congregation there are enough
hands to gather continual harvest
of souls, but they are idle hands, and
idle hands never gather anything. A
careful inquiry into the causes of this
idleness will reveal the fact that many
believe that they are not called 20
this work of harvesting souls. They
have hired a minister TO do that
work, and with the payment of his
salary their obligation TO preach the
gospel to every creature is over.
Suppose a farmer with large or
chard laden with ripe fruit should
put only one man to pick all the
fruit, what would be the RESULT The
work. of one man, and, more than
likely. a discouraged man at that.
Yet how often do we see, not the
owner, but the laborers, sent by the
Master to work at gathering souls
forming a combination and selecting
one of their number to do their part
of the work. The Lord never pro-
vided for substitutes in His work.
He expects everyone to DO his duty.
No other soul can gather your share
of the harvest, even though you pay
him for it. Significant statistics
might be gathered in all our congre-
cations concerning the amount of
hand-picking going on Surely the
Masters method Of gathering the
harvest is inadequate if the earnest
efforts of a church Of one hundred
pickers produces in year only three
or six souls. But before we charge
God with folly, let ue carefully in
quire whether the hundred pickers
are really doing their work. We be-
GeYe that any wide awake pastor, in
the majority of our churches, could
count on the fingers of both hands,
all the winners OF souls in each church.
The harvest delays because so many
laboYers stand still all the day idle.
Yet the Lord tuI1ils his promise to
those who obey his command. He is
with the faithful worker always. He
gives success to personal effort. An
eminent minister. lately came into
our own denomination, a few weeks
since in the Fulton street meeting
gave his testimony TO the hand
picking of souls. eff my minister
has convinced me of anything, it is
of this truth, that have never prayed
for a soul and gone after that soul,
that God has not gone before me and
given me that soul" This is not the
testimony of theorist, but of
worker in the Lords vineyard whose
fields of labor have been marked by
large ingatherings. Manipulating
pays. Try it this year. Begin at
once with the soul that God has
placed nearest you. Thrust in the
sickle, the harvest is ripe. Every fol-
lower Of Christ is needed in the field
as a worker. Remember your min
lister cannot do your work for the
Master, not even if you pay HIM for
it. Win souls for Christ yourself
Christian Mte{igencer.
When our divine Master says to us
tECnr+ ,-n,r norn On rnn - he 1nnc not
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A TTORNEY AT LAW. Olathe,
~ Kansas. Office over the Grange
store, southwest corner. second Moor
Practices III State and Federal courts
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BuRGLARlSM.

In selecting house to sburgle," the burg
lar should choose the residence Of an elderly
gentleman, because his gait is broken and his
locks are few.
In Chicago a thief entered a house, and
while prowling around fell over a chair and
broke his leg, and had to arouse the family
and request them to send for q doctor.
Whatth average citizen needs just at this
crisis is an efficient burglar alarm. Accord
ing to The Boston Post, the latest burglar
alarm is the burglars fear that the bank
cashier will get there before he can.
Careful inquiries among detectives and po-
lice authorities have failed to show one single
instance where persons robbed have been
cilloroformed. All have heard of such cases,
but not one has come within their own
knowledge.
In Austin, Tex, u burglar was detected
stealing d Waterbury watch. The owner of
the watch, q confirmed journalist, awoke, and
Il and at the muzzle of the pistol compelled the
burglar to keep the timepieee, although the
burglar, with tears in his eyes, begged leave
to return 1t.
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'sWe can boil them till they are tender" !"
said the mistress of the house. Then some
food was held out to these worthy ranters,
and some fattery heaped upon them, and the
conceited things, thinking they were to take
part in convention where they could do all
the talking, stepped up to the enemy and
were caught and beheaded. t.-..
Before this the small pig which had sneered
at talk of the dark Thursday predicted by
Mmc. Devachau was ready for roasting.
Ephraim was indeed joined to his idols for
ever more. The two orators and the skeptic
graced and creased the Thanksgivir. board,
although not exactly in the characters they
would have chosen. '1
The next day the big turkey and all the
other fowls who had taken Nine D. S warm
ing returned to the farm and settled down
comfortably to life again
Over the bones of the skeptical pig and the
two clustering orators they told each other
how thankful they were, laying particular
stress on their gratitude for the boon of
minds receptive. enough to accept new
thought. That evening they gave o swell
party to Nine Devachau and loaded her with
hoY,pT-c q O.
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SPORTING AND ATHLETIC.

Prospects for the New Orleans winter turf
meeting are good. It begins Nov. 5.
Clingstone is so smart that Mr.. Gordon
3 wants to 4rot him against Jay -Eye-See or any
other animal The Racine horse can be
secured probably, provided some oae other
than his owner puts up tho stake.
2 William Beckwith and James Finney are
matched to swim six days, ten hours daily,
for the long distance championship of the
world and 81 900, at the Lambeth BeShs
London, England, commencing Oct 81.
A fight for 81 200 o side and purse of
81 500 is being arranged between Toff Wall,
middle weight champion of England, and
George La Blanche, the Mari1fe, to occur
near Boston the latter part of November.
II Wall has not been overestimated by the
English sporting press the Marine has big
contract on hand. @ tT z
There will be number of new race tracks
next year, if certain plans now under con-
sideration are carried out. The proposal is
made to have circuit in New York state,
comprising Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Rochester,
Utica Albany and a track in Massachusetts,,
located at Worcester. The last named city
would be fine location for race track.
The city is just midway between Boston and
Springfield, and within an hours ride of each.
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AN IDEAL THANKSGIVING

As there are abuses the law cannot reach.
SO there are people no holiday includes.
There is a time of the year when yaerants-
criminals, in word, the destitute as body
are fcastcd with good things and made to
share the comfort of the rich But as COM
prehensiye as this charity may be, as minute
in its search after recipients, as thoughtful
in the choice of creature comforts. it is pitt
full to think how many yet remain in the
highways and hedges" out of reach.
Can You imagine a gathering of such as
these! We see much of the other side of the
picture, but it is startling to think that those
who come to the surface are only the minor
ity Beneath every success, however modest
and obscure, there is substructure of accu-
mulated failures; and for one or ten whom we
see in moderate comfort and unassuming
ease, there are 100 or 200 who have been too
weak to swim.
had been to many fully spread boards,
public and private, ON this day of typical
thanksgiving for all the blessings and good
gifts of the year; but one to which was ac-
cidentally introduced late in the evening
proved of greater interest and rarity than
any of the Others
The host was gray headed man, wifeless
and childless, rich, odd, disappointed and
generally supposed to be misanthropic. He
had no aim i'll life; no interest strong enough
to absorb him, no will stable enough to hold
the reins. He gave to every one who asked,
but no work of charity interested There
was no pursuit, physical or mental, which
could SO sustain him as to turn him from
vain regrets and impartial longings. Hehad
never found his place in life; had never
known necessity, and therefore never tasted
the excitement of the race for existence,
which somo time or other gives at least q
dash Of interest to the most unsuccessful
career. He was not irreligious, but he be-
lolGcd to no religious body, and when any
one told him that he had much to thank
Providence for he would shrug his shoulders
in wonder.
AS tho years went on this man brooded
more and moro over disappointed hopes, and
took morbid pleasure in finding out cases of
failure in all tho various callings of life. He
dwelt on the subject until it became mono
mania. One or two acquaintances-hc had
no heart friend-out of compassion advised
him to turn t. O. brooding to practical use by
benefiting men in situations like his own.
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THE LITTLE PEOPLE.

She is about years old and she is in Eu-
rope with her mother He had aired some
French before her. Papa" she said, ''you
are very nice, but you do speak such bad
French!''-San Francisco Chronicle.
Bobby was inspecting the new baby for the
first time, and his dictum was as follows: 81
s'pose it's nice enough what there was of it,"
he said, without enthusiasm, "but I'm sorry
it amt parrot. springfield Republican.
One day little Emma mother reproved her
quite sharply for not changing her shoes.
After a moments reflection Emma said: 81
wish you would be real dood to me, mamma.
fink you would like it after you got used to
it.n-Detroit Free Press s..
''You were nice, quiet little boy in Sum
day school this morning, Bobby" said the
minister ~ was very much pleased with
YOU" "Yes," replied Bobby, ''pa said that
if I'd behave myself in Sunday school 1
needn't go to church. FURNISHING Trade
Review
A little 4year-oid girl had her first dream
and was expatiating upon the new found ex-
perience and telling it out, when her mother
said Jennie, tell mamma your dream?"
80! pshaw, mamma, you were lying right by
me and you ought to know.n-Louisville
Democrat.
a little boy at village school had written
the word sspsalmn in his copybook, and acci-
IDENTIFY blotted out the initial ''p" with his
sleeve His little sister sitting at his side
burst into tears over the disaster, but the
spelling reformer defiantly exclaimed "What
if did leave him out? He didn't spell moth
ing, and what was the good of him?"-Pres-
byterian Journal.
The small girl had O request to prefer to
her mother. She wanted to be permitted to
go to the grocery for something that was
needed. She was only T. Her mother said
''Well, you can 60 But mind you must not
stop on the street and talk to the boys"
Mamma she said, drawing herself up to
her full height, mamma, you insult ner'--
San Francisco Chronicle. .arse s -..a
A little 3-year-old girl was in front of the
camera the other day. Tho photographer
had posed her to his mind, told her what to
look at and stepped back to make the exposure.
The tttle chick evidently concluded the pre-
lmi-,aries were satisfactory, for she electri-
fed tho photographer with the cheerful
advice to ''Let her go, Gallagher" The
photr graphing was deferred till the merri-
mene subdued. Journal.
We heard the other day of young minis
ter who was ''taken down. very handsomely
by q bright little girl. He had been called
upon quite unexpectedly to address Sunday
school, and to give himself time to collect his
thoughts, he asked a question: "Children,"
said he, ''what shall speak about?7 A little
girl on the front seat who had herself COM
rnitted to memory several dcclamations held
up her hand, and in a shril1 voice asked:
"What do you know?'-Baptist Weekly.
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How to Woo Gentle sleep.

A woman who has tried them advocates the
following remedies for sleeplessness: When
about to retire, wet soft linen towel in cold
water, and wiring as dry as you can, then
fold it lengthwise, SO there will be three thick,
nesses, and place it around the neck, having
one end folded smoothly over the other at the
back of the neck; over this place dry flannel
or cloth. If you have headache wet
similar towel, fold it cornerwise and tie
around tho forehead, SO that the lower part
of tho fold will rest lightly ON the eyelids
Read nothing exciting during the evening
If you read story, let it be an entertaining
or diverting one, and do not finish it, but
when you close your eyes to sleep, think how
you would end the story If you had written
it yourself And my word for it, before you
have disposed of the hero or heroine, you will
be in Sunderland. If the compress around
your neck causes you to feel chilly then do
not keep it on. If you wake in the night and
it feels hot and uncomfortable wet it again in
cold water. In the morning remove it and
wash the neck in cold water and rub briskly.
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MOTHER WAS THERE.
Tho Silent Figure at the Little Table In
the MacMoffats' Home.

Tho Silent Figure at the little Table In
the MacMoffats' Home.
Six towheaded MacMoffats stuck their
heads over the rim of the pine table and
looked anxiously but cheerfully at their
Thanksgiving dinner of boiled Goldfish and
potatoes which Mr. MacMoffat, with his hand
in sling, from fal; he got from scaffold
: last August, was commencing to ladle out to
them.
''It's Cape Cod turkey!" exclaimed Master
John MacMoffat who was the wit of the
family, and all laughed.
"Our turkey roasted too high this year."
said Mr.. MacMofat, at which they all
laughed again, though broken arm and
idleness and doctors bills had scared off the
turkey.
Turkey makes your feet sore,n said the
family wit, and there was another laugh
''Id rather have well cooked Goldfish than
tough turkey, for my part, any day." re-
marked Miss Mary Ellen MacMoffat, who
was aspiring to be young lady.
'An' pie" suggested the youngest tow
head, at which they all laughed again, for
there really was to be an apple pie, with a
piece all round, at the end of the meal, though
it was as yet held to be too good to be talked
about a
swell, it's great blessing that we're all
here and in good health" remarked Miss
Eliza MacMoffat the spinster aunt, somewhat
ufsIlally anu quite irroIovantly
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A CLAIRVOYANT HEN.


What She Saw just Before Thanks
giving.
We never know just what is going on in
the minds of those about US. If VIC did con-
teEtment would be much rarer than it is and
apprehension and anxiety would hold the
very earth up by the cars Yes, it is fine
thing we are not all mind readers
New thought has way of diffusing itself
oil around, while certain people who keep
the windows of their minds closed to shut it
out are very comfortable in the belief that
nobody is entertaining it because they are
not. Es zs4
It was just SO at the Terry farm. The
people of the house had no idea what was
going ON in the fowl minds about them. The
truth was, new tangled ideas had gained won
derful headway in the barnyard. Many of
the hens were pronounced equal suffragists,
and went about talking equal rights iaA r-roy
that would have got them into serious trou-
BILE twenty five years ago, if they had been
alive at that time. A few of the biggest
Drained cocks espoused the cause. Two
of the mediocres also took it up and
enjoyed themselves amazingly making
speeches. If they had a fault, it was
that they were too fond of oratory.
When the hens had convention these
two seasoned fowls were always there, and
took front seats on the platform. The mo-
ment the meeting opened both bobbed up to
talk. The president one of the most intel
lectual hens in the whole state, and also
blessed with high executive ability, always
found it difficult to decide which one to recog-
nize, so simultaneously did they spring to
their feet Before the first one was through
speaking the other one was up and ready to
IL
this way they monopolized the entire time of
every meeting, and famous birds from dis
tance who had been invited to the meetings
to speak went home with all their music in
them. The hens didn't like this bit, but
being hens and not roosters they were obliged
to go slow in moving against the enemy.
These two strong woman's rights cocks
were not wholly consistent. In their speeches
they soundly berated all men who did not
make bold stand in favor of woman suf-
frage; but it was whispered around that they
were the last fowls to get up and give their
seats to hens in street car, and that when
they employed hens to scratch by the day for
them they paid them merely enough to keep
soul and body together. f---o.. All.
But at the beginning of autumn suffrage
talk rather gave place to occultism. There
was perfect wave of metaphysical interest
in the land, and it found q fine soil in the
brains of these advanced birds Mind cure,
Buddhism, theosophy, clairvoyance and all
phases of occultism blossomed like the rose.
So absorbed were many of these feathered
disciples of new thought that they scarcely
ate any of the unusually tempting food given
them with view to increasing their corpu-
lency for Thanksgiving. Braced up by the
belief that they were in possession of mighty
secrets unknown and unheeded by the rest of
the world, they went about with their heads
quite in another world. Indeed, some pro
gressed so far as to believe and assert that
they need never die if they didn't want to.
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SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.
A Plea for Improvement in Our Public
Manners.

A Plea for Improvement in Our Public
Manners.
The subject of behavior in public places
is OF interest to everybody, and the sins of
the American woman in this respect have
been much remarked upon. Harpcr's Bazaar
asserts that she has no sense of etiquette in
public places She talks and laughs at the
opera when an artist is singing. She behaves
worse at matinee than any other woman in
the world. She crowds shoves, shows temper
and a lack of good feeling. She does not in
her opera box always behave quietly and
like lady. She gets up, turns her back on
the audience, adjusts her dress, laughs and
talks audibly to her cavalier l
The same authority makes other pointed
comments, some of which are, in brief as
follows:
A young American prirna donna used to be
invited by an American lady to go with her
to the opera and sit in O conspicuous box.
She took her manners with her, talked.
laughed, ate sweetmeats, threw papers into
the next box, and behaved as If she were
E tipsy. Christine Nilsson sat in box near
her. Gravely, silently respectful to the
singers was the great Swedish genius She
did not do any OF these things. She looked
mournfully at the American. The best and
the highest are respectful The lowest In
rank are impertinent and poor in manner
and in style.
In society, in a crowd, VIC need les con-
venaaces; they help us to keep our natures in
check; they make the world fit place to
live in. When We are exposed to the brutality
Of i'll hammered people we learn how uncom-
Portable the world would be if there were no
etiquette. sta1 ssA
The best book of etiquette should bear the
motto: "Do unto others as We would that
others should do unto YOU ~ t
Foreigners say that decorum in public is
not a popularity of the American woman
Americans can do everything WELL Why
cannot they learn to behave decently in
public placess Why should not an American
gentleman infuse into his correctness GER
tain fresh originality, a viyacity and wit, and
instead Of being q dead copy of an English
swell, have flavor of his own? And why
should not an American woman be low
voiced, thoroughbred, quiet, polite, as well as
well dressed, original and beautiful?
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PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

Why Some People Wear Eye Glasses
Various Practical Items for Every Day.
Spectacles are much moro worn than they
we're half dozen years ago. 1t is no longer
matter of surprise to see them on children
of 8 to 10 years of age. An oculist being
asked if diseases of the eye are on the in
crease, thinks they are not, but that vanity
puts many people into spectacles. Only an
oculist can have any idea how many people
wear eye glasses because they think it adds to
their personal appearance.
In regard to young people, they study and
read by dim lamp light, and, of course, the
eye becomes somewhat weakened; then the
parents rush off and get pair of spectacles,
and often patronize men who will sell them
any kind of glass, just to get the money.
This carelessness is dangerous and sometimes
fatal to the organs of sight.
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A quiet hush fell on the clothless table,
For second tho tin ladle in MacMoffat's
hand ratified family on the platter's edge.
''Sister Eliza, would you mind running up
the next fight to Duganse's and asking him
to lend me the loan of his almanac till see q
date?" said MacMoftat
Sister Eliza was az accommodating as she
was stupid, and did not mind it bit The
quiet around the table was unbroken. An
unseen form was at the board Aunt Eliza's
careless words had turned the eye of the
heart upon the face that had passed away in
the last spring The tin lad.c stopped its rat
tic on the platter. MacMoffat laid it down.
He did not trust his eyes with the six little
faces around the table, but gave them to his
heart to see the face that was there yet in
visible. Eyes. dears," he said, slowly and
softly, "shes here, but maybe We can't see
her, but she's here. Mothers here with us,
children We are all all here"